The end of another disappointing season is on the horizon. One more win for Aston Villa will most likely mean another season in the Premier League. Aston Villa improved with a 0-0 draw last weekend against Southampton, previously Aston Villa lost 4 on the trot.
Swansea also improved last weekend by beating Newcastle 2-1 at St James’s Park. That win also brings Swansea nearer to survival. Swansea have failed to achieve the success of last season with both Michael Laudrop and Gary Monk struggling to bring the best out of their Swansea side.
In the previous fixture Swansea managed to grab a 1-1 draw at Villa Park. Agbonlahor and Lamah both scoring on that day. Wayne Routledge may face his former side. Routledge joined Aston Villa 2008 from Tottenham for a fee of £1.5 million. He was sold to QPR in 2009 for a fee of £600,000. Overall Routledge made 2 appearances for Aston Villa.
Team News:
Michu will yet again miss out with an ankle injury, this ankle injury has been ongoing throughout the season for Michu. While Chico Flores is still suspended following his red card against Chelsea.
Aston Villa will be without Joe Bennett who picked up an ankle problem during training. Nicklas Helenius has recovered from a thigh injury and it’s unknown whether or not he will be in the match day squad.
Match Facts:
Wilfried Bony has now netted 13 Barclays Premier League goals this season, eight more than any other Swansea player.
Grant Holt has scored three goals in four Barclays Premier League games against Swansea; against no side has he scored more in the competition.
Aston Villa have conceded only 21 goals away from home this season, eight fewer than league leaders Liverpool (29) have.
Villa have gone three hours and 20 minutes without scoring a Premier League goal.
Aston Villa have won just one of the eight Premier League games that Christian Benteke has missed this season, netting only six goals in the process.
All three Villa trips to Wales in the Premier League have ended as draws; with two of those finishing 0-0.
Predicted Lineups:
Vorm
Rangel-Amat-Williams-Davies
Shelvey-Britton
de Guzman-Hernandez-Routledge
Bony
Agbonlahor-Holt-Albrighton
Delph-Westwood-El Ahmadi
Bertrand-Baker-Vlaar-Bacuna
Guzan
Match Prediction:
Swansea 0-0 Aston Villa
I just don’t know where the goals are going to come from for Aston Villa. Albrighton and Bertrand proved last weekend that we have two players that are capable of producing fantastic crosses. But we had no one at the end of them. Obviously Holt would be favourite to win a few but I think if Lambert wanted a mixture of pace and strength clearly Helenius is your guy. He scored both pre-season goals with headers and I reckon he’d do a good job, especially with both Weimann and Agbonlahor on poor form. Swansea will play well, but I don’t think they are nearly as good as a side as they were last season, but if one team had to win, it will be Swansea because they have a goal scorer in Bony.
Yup, i think you have the prediction about right…we line up 4-3-3 or 5-3-2, have very little possession and fail to score. The only real question is whether Vlaar and co. can keep out Mr. Bony! Given that they need to win this game, im gonna say not. Oh well, we can always pick ourselves up and go again..!
I’m going 1-1 it’s got draw written all over it, but then again it’s VILLA so you never know.
Nothing less than a loss today we are shit
Also Holt is a bag off like the rest of em everybody out all of em Squad,management,coaches,boardroom all on em fuck off the lot off you
agreed JD, villa-1 swansea-2 (or 3) sad to say but can see this really putting us in the brown stuff
” but I think if Lambert wanted a mixture of pace and strength clearly Helenius is your guy”
Really Adam ?
Ian, stop being so bloody patronising. What’s happened to you??? 😉
Its going to be a really hard game today, very nervous about the whole thing really.. Adam I love the way you say 1 more win will do it.. we have 2 chances that’s it for me.. im hoping 36 points will be enough as I don’t think we will win again.
I totally hope im wrong,
Can feel 3 points today, 2 teams playing shit, villa to nick it 1-0. May as well give helenius and Robinson a run out today. Weimenn is just playing crap and disappears in games, holt playing achieved nothing. Helenius up top with gabby and Robinson either side. Swansea will know little about both players and may give a surprise edge to the game
i have no doubts the players will give the honest bests, the trouble is, which most fans fail to see, is thats well short of premier league standards. the best manager in the game would struggle 2 play a tune out of this squad on a regular basis. but i still think they will just av enough points. todays and the hull tigers game are important we must find another point or 3 will make us relax. then we can all talk fantasy football earlier than expected.
swans 0 villa 0
Yeah, most fans fail to see that the players are clearly short of Premier league standard… lol
mission impossible andrew yes without sarcasm players got moyes the sack and players at villa are just not good enough, not tactics not team selection. lack of funds meaning manager has shit to work with = poor performances =lack of sexy passing footy= up and down result, purely blaming a manager for the standards is shortsightedness bigger picture is funds and with miles less budgets. this manager is just as bad as all managers b4 him, minus MON who wasted lerners dollars on some shocking players and a 1 or 2 goods ones
That’s the thing though, it’s all of the above. Tactics, Formations, Team Selection. Funds can be a problem, but few clubs other than the top 7-8 spend more than us and we still continue to struggle. No one’s blamed the whole thing on the manager, however he’s largely at fault as these are still his signings. How can other clubs do it, but he can’t?
i don’t care anymore ~ if u av substandard equipment you are only gonna get shoddy work. no matter how good a craftsman u hire if he hasn’t the rite tools ur bang in trouble
If you don’t know how to use the tools you buy which he’s proven for near 2 yearsyou will fail. Even cheap tools can wwork if you are intelligent. He isnt.
i will talk to the wall
when he was at norwich his cheap TOOLS kicked villa expensive arse enough to suggest most villa fans shouting his name. his team played us off the park TWICE u seem 2 be suffering from wots known as selective memories
ffs fulham 1.0 up
2.0 fulham we are going down
Weimann and Gabby start again……ughhh, no goals for the first half at least.
same lineup helenius as last weekend
Yep, they were both shit then and I can’t see that changing
Has anyone seen the comments from Lambert saying he has drawn up a list of players that won’t come cheap? Any links/sources?
1-0 to Swansea shocking defending! Also WBA have just scored
Relegation here we come!
Get in
I’ve lost interest. To change the topic…has anyone else ever seen a player sweat as much as Petrov? Just saw a pic of him on Facebook, his shirt saturated with sweat, and it reminded me how I always used to marvel at how sweaty he looked, even being only 10 minutes into a match! Can anyone recall ever seeing a sweatier player? We certainly don’t see that with our current players, do we?!
GABBBBYYYYY!!!!!!!!
In some ways going a goal down may not be so bad. We need to have a go now rather than look to not concede as we would probably do at 0-0. You do wonder where a goal will come from with our fit strikers.
Just as I’m typing we have scored!
Get in Gabby! Although I’d love to follow a more successful team, it’s impossible to stop supporting the team you’ve followed all your life, isn’t it?!
You choose one club as a kid. Then it’s them and no other. I suppose it’s like how the Catholic Church see marriage.
Got to play for 3 points!
Shelvey. Bollocks.